A Dublin man who drank a litre of vodka and took two grams of cocaine before he knocked down a toddler in the Phoenix Park last year has been jailed for five years.

The father of a toddler who died in a hit-and-run accident gave evidence as the inquest into her death opened on what should have been her second birthday.

A man has confessed to gardaí his role in a hit-and-run collision during the bank holiday weekend that left a toddler fatally injured.